Flights between the UK and Italy: what a delay is worth
Italy isn't one distance from the UK, so what a 3-hour-plus delay pays depends on the route. Find your route below, or check your flight for an exact answer.
| Route | 3h+ delay pays |
|---|---|
| Heathrow → Rome (Fiumicino) | £220 |
| Heathrow → Milan (Linate) | £220 |
| London City → Milan (Linate) | £220 |
| Gatwick → Milan (Malpensa) | £220 |
| Heathrow → Venice | £220 |
| Stansted → Rome (Ciampino) | £220 |
| Gatwick → Rome (Fiumicino) | £220 |
| Stansted → Bergamo | £220 |
| Stansted → Venice | £220 |
| Stansted → Milan (Malpensa) | £220 |
| Heathrow → Bologna | £220 |
| Stansted → Pisa | £220 |
| Gatwick → Naples | £350 |
| Heathrow → Milan (Malpensa) | £220 |
| Gatwick → Verona Villafranca | £220 |
All 15 tracked UK ↔ Italy routes, sorted by yearly flight volume. Figures are per passenger under UK261; EU261 pays €250 or €400 for the same two bands.
In the last 12 months, 109,949 flights operated between the UK and Italy: 69.3% ran within 15 minutes of schedule, and 0.5% were 3 or more hours late, roughly 550 flights' worth of eligible passengers in a year. The CAA's figures don't separate arrivals from departures, so this covers the route both ways.
Punctuality is up on last year: 69.3% of flights ran on time against 64.8% in the twelve months before, and the average delay fell from 20.1 to 17 minutes.
Flights (12mo)
109,949
On time
69.3%
▲ 4.5pts vs last year
Avg delay
17 min
▼ 3.1 min vs last year
3h+ delayed
0.5%
Cancelled
0.5%
Italy, month by month
Worst month: July 2025, averaging 28.5 minutes.
Busiest routes between the UK and Italy
| UK airport | Destination | 3h+ delay pays |
|---|---|---|
| Heathrow | Rome (Fiumicino) | £220 |
| Heathrow | Milan (Linate) | £220 |
| London City | Milan (Linate) | £220 |
| Gatwick | Milan (Malpensa) | £220 |
| Heathrow | Venice | £220 |
| Stansted | Rome (Ciampino) | £220 |
| Gatwick | Rome (Fiumicino) | £220 |
| Stansted | Bergamo | £220 |
| Stansted | Venice | £220 |
| Stansted | Milan (Malpensa) | £220 |
| Heathrow | Bologna | £220 |
| Stansted | Pisa | £220 |
| Gatwick | Naples | £350 |
| Heathrow | Milan (Malpensa) | £220 |
| Gatwick | Verona Villafranca | £220 |
UK airports flying to Italy
| Airport | 3h+ % | On-time % |
|---|---|---|
| Stansted | 0.5% | 66.6% |
| Heathrow | 0.4% | 75.5% |
| Gatwick | 0.7% | 67.6% |
| Manchester | 0.6% | 62.4% |
| London City | 0.3% | 77.7% |
| Edinburgh | 0.8% | 66.8% |
| Luton | 0.5% | 68.0% |
| Birmingham | 0.4% | 64.4% |
| Bristol | 0.7% | 70.4% |
| Glasgow | 1.0% | 74.3% |
| Newcastle | 0.7% | 74.7% |
| East Midlands International | 0.1% | 74.3% |
| Leeds Bradford | 0.6% | 75.3% |
| Liverpool (John Lennon) | 0.5% | 74.5% |
| Belfast International | 0.4% | 62.3% |
| Southend | <0.5% | 86.7% |
| Bournemouth | <0.5% | 82.7% |
| Belfast City (George Best) | 1.7% | 72.4% |
Airlines flying between the UK and Italy
| Airline | 3h+ % | On-time % |
|---|---|---|
| Ryanair | 0.5% | 66.0% |
| British Airways | 0.4% | 73.9% |
| easyJet | 0.6% | 70.1% |
| Jet2.com | 0.6% | 66.8% |
| Italia Traspoto Aereo | 0.1% | 80.9% |
| Wizz Air | 0.7% | 64.6% |
| BA CityFlyer | 0.4% | 71.1% |
| Vueling Airlines | 0.4% | 66.2% |
| TUI Airways | 1.0% | 57.3% |
| Skyalps | 0.8% | 50.7% |
Your rights on this route
Every flight leaving the UK for Italy is covered by UK261, whichever airline operates it. Flights the other way, landing in the UK from Italy, are covered too if a UK or EU airline operated them; a return flight on a non-UK, non-EU carrier falls outside UK261, though the Montreal Convention and Italy's own rules may still give you a claim. See the full breakdown on the 3-hour rule. Cancelled instead of delayed? Broadly the same amounts apply under different conditions. See cancelled flight compensation.
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Source: UK Civil Aviation Authority punctuality statistics, July 2025 to June 2026. Analysis by CheckFlightCompensation; the CAA is credited as the data source as its publication conditions require. Figures cover the 25 largest UK airports.